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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Business logic for Web 2.0
Community key to Web 2.0 success tries to provide some wisdom about Web 2.0. You are hereby warned.
'"I think we [can] substitute the word 'community' with 'users'," Teo said. "If you have no users, you have no business. [But] if you have users, you have a community."'
I guess that's pretty obvious to everyone already, as UGC services are focused on user-to-user communication one way or another. Without any recipients of submitted information no one will submit, and the other way around. That of course also means the bulk of services will not get popular unless they have a twist, as people will flock to the services where there are already lots of people in the right age group, interest group etc.
'Web 2.0, he added, is an "interesting misnomer [that] categorizes a significant amount of change in the industry all at once, [such as] the user experience revolution and the way customers interact". '
That's a good way of saying 'We haven't got a clue what Web 2.0 is about.'
Actually I sense it would be less confusing if the Web 2.0 term wasn't used, and we instead talked about what the services offer, what they actually are used for, who they address and where the revenue streams are.
'"I think we [can] substitute the word 'community' with 'users'," Teo said. "If you have no users, you have no business. [But] if you have users, you have a community."'
I guess that's pretty obvious to everyone already, as UGC services are focused on user-to-user communication one way or another. Without any recipients of submitted information no one will submit, and the other way around. That of course also means the bulk of services will not get popular unless they have a twist, as people will flock to the services where there are already lots of people in the right age group, interest group etc.
'Web 2.0, he added, is an "interesting misnomer [that] categorizes a significant amount of change in the industry all at once, [such as] the user experience revolution and the way customers interact". '
That's a good way of saying 'We haven't got a clue what Web 2.0 is about.'
Actually I sense it would be less confusing if the Web 2.0 term wasn't used, and we instead talked about what the services offer, what they actually are used for, who they address and where the revenue streams are.
